Comments on: Super Brew Racking Weekend

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:05:00 +0000

Brad -

Tried the 1554 and I liked it, not my fav though. I love the Abby and Trippel they do. Great brews. They had a Belgian sour ale on tap only available in the brewery when I was there. I kind of felt bad drinking it because I don't really appreciate them, but yet I still drank it.

Cheers!

By: Brad Warbiany

Brad Warbiany — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:29:00 +0000

BTW I noticed that you're headed to Colorado...

If you're in Denver, you MUST hit up the Falling Rock Tap House. Best beer bar I've ever been to, and I've been to a few.

CO has a lot of great breweries... If you're out there, there are better things you can pick up from New Belgium than Fat Tire... 1554 is one of my personal NB favorites.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:31:00 +0000

yea I keg, I have 6 of them. How does this “kegging secondary” process work for you? Do you bleed off the O2 when you pressurize the keg? Doesn’t that stop a lot of what is going on in secondary fermentation? The guy from my LHBS said that he cut an inch off the dip tube on a keg that he uses for a secondary so that it leaves the traub at the bottom.

Interesting idea, but at this point a lot of my kegs are “long-term storage” and I don’t have enough of them to do that. Though dollar for dollar it sounds pretty good.

By: Brad Warbiany

Brad Warbiany — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:03:00 +0000

I rarely secondary anything any more. And just came across some new corny kegs, so anything I’m going to secondary will be done in those instead of glass carboys. They’re unbreakable, can be pressure-sealed, and when the time comes to drink it, you can either drink it from the keg (if you’re so equipped), or you can carbonate and bottle right off the keg.

If you’re brewing enough, kegging is the way to go!